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  • It is 71 years today since Lars Saabye Christensen was born.

    Norwegian author who grew up in the Oslo suburb Skillebekk. He also lived for several years in Sortland in northern Norway, two places he keeps returning to in his books. Christensen read Norwegian, literature, history of ideas and art at university. He now lives in Oslo.
    Lars Saabye Christensen is committed to help promote new talent in Norway. Between 1986 and the early nineties, he edited...

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  • It is 77 years today since Stephen King was born.

    Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to by cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his adopted...

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Portrait image of Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Khemiri, Jonas Hassen
1978 -

Jonas Hassen Khemiri was born in Stockholm. After he finished school he attended the Stockholm School of Economics, he has...

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Författarporträtt av Innes, Michael

Innes, Michael
1906 - 1994

Michael Innes is the pen name adopted by John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, a British author and professor of literature at...

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Saunders, George
1958 -

George Saunders is primarily an author of short stories. He was born in Amarillo, Texas, and grew up in Chicago. When he...

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Vallgren, Carl-Johan
1964 -

Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren has never been sure about whether he should focus on music or on writing. He studied music and...

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